- 'Thrones' Reigns As Most Pirated TV Show
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, December 26, 2013
Following its 2012 performance, the most pirated TV show for all of 2013 was HBO's "Game of Thrones" -- more than its illegal downloads of a year ago. CBS' "B ...
- China Web Sites, Once A Haven for Video Pirates, Turn Tough
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Friday, December 6, 2013
The website of China's biggest Internet video company Youku Tudou once trafficked in illegal copies of Hollywood films. Now,the company that controls almost a third of China's booming legitimate onli ...
- Want to Stop Video Piracy? Put Your Video Online
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Tuesday, December 3, 2013
A chapter in a new book makes the case that media companies should speed up efforts to get as much of their content online as possible to combat piracy. ...
- Non-Indexed File-Sharing Site Feeds On Piracy
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, November 18, 2013
A piracy indexing site funded by Bitcoins, NewsNab+, has set up shop within the Tor network, which The Guardian describes in a previous article as a hangout for pedophiles, dr ...
- What Google Did With 200 Million Pirated Links
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Google has been asked to remove more than 200 million links since January as a result of pirated content, reports TorrentFreak. The search engine removed about 10 million links ...
- MPAA Shuts Down Search Engine For Pirated Content
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, October 18, 2013
After a long legal battle with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the site facilitating searches for BitTorrent file sharing has agreed to shut down its international operations a ...
- BitTorrent Ad Campaign Aims To Change Internet Pirate Image
Online Media Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, October 9, 2013
BitTorrent has launched a billboard advertising campaign to reverse a brand image nearly as old as the company. Historically known for its protocol supporting peer-to-peer file sharing as way ...
- Cameron Appointment Signals Crackdown On Piracy
Around the Net In OMD Europe, Tanya Gazdik - Friday, September 13, 2013
British Prime Minister David Cameron has appointed a former music industry executive as his adviser on intellectual property, setting the stage for a government crackdown on copyright infringement. Mike Weatherle ...
- Comcast Working On Anti-Video-Piracy System
Around the Net In Media, Phyllis Fine - Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Cable operator Comcast is in the preliminary stages of developing a piracy-fighting system that "would provide offending users with transactional opportunities to access legal versions of copyright-infringing videos as they’ ...
- Ad Networks Unveil Anti-Piracy Plan
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 15, 2013
A group of ad networks today officially signed on to a voluntary plan aimed at curbing online piracy. Google, AOL, Yahoo and other Web companies that operate ad networks pledg ...
- IAB Receives Pat On The Back From The White House
Real-Time Daily, Tyler Loechner - Monday, July 15, 2013
At the IAB Advertising Marketplace Technology event in New York this morning, Randall Rothenberg, president and CEO of IAB, started off by announcing that the IAB's efforts against piracy ...
- New Police Unit To Tackle Piracy, Counterfeiting
Around the Net In OMD Europe, Nina Lentini - Monday, July 1, 2013
The UK Government has revealed plans to establish a new dedicated police division aimed at targeting online piracy and other intellectual property crimes including counterfeit goods. The UK Intellectual Proper ...
- Intellectual Property Commission Eyes Malware
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, May 28, 2013
On behalf of all domestic content owners, the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property has submitted a report to Congress, which proposed anti-piracy measures, including the use ...
- Pirate Movie Sites Blocked By ISPs In UK
Around the Net In OMD Europe, Nina Lentini - Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Most of the UK Internet service providers (ISPs) have started blocking access to two websites accused of violating copyright laws. The blocks follows UK courts ruling in favor of t ...
- Real Media Group Cracks Down On Piracy
Real-Time Daily, Tyler Loechner - Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Online piracy has become a serious issue for advertisers, especially in the land of automation, where one robot has trouble detecting another. At the NAI's Annual Summit, 24/7 Media's Re ...
- Broadcasters Determined To Stop Aereo 'Piracy'
MediaDailyNews, David Goetzl - Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Even after losing two court decisions in their efforts to shut down Aereo, broadcast executives continue to believe they can find a way to prevail as the litigation continues. T ...
- 'Game Of Thrones,' 'Dexter' Piracy Cost Cablers Multimillions
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, April 4, 2013
HBO's "Game of Thrones" is considered the most pirated TV show. The HBO drama is estimated to have seen some 4.3 million illegal downloads, costing some $170.7 million in reven ...
- Study Find Piracy Does Not Hurt Music Sales
Around the Net In OMD Europe, Nina Lentini - Thursday, March 21, 2013
According to a new report by the European Commission Joint research centre, online music piracy does not significantly affect legal music sales. The study examined the online practices of 16,0 ...
- Music Revenues Up, Piracy Down Across World
Around the Net In OMD Europe, Nina Lentini - Thursday, February 28, 2013
Growth was due to implementation of licensed digital music services and rapid expansion into new global markets. The global music industry reported a 0.3% rise in revenues to $16.5 billi ...
- 'Six Strikes' Program Launches, But Piracy Already On Decline
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 26, 2013
A group of Internet service providers this week is launching the so-called "six strikes" program, aimed at curbing piracy on peer-to-peer networks. The new "Copyright Alert System" calls for IS ...
- RIAA: Google Algorithm Does Nothing To Stop Piracy
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, February 22, 2013
The Recording Industry Association of America believes Google's algorithm change to lower rankings of sites with high numbers of copyright-infringing removal notices has not helped to push the sites low ...
- Brands: Beware Of Ad Networks Supporting Pirated Content Sites
Online Media Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, February 15, 2013
Advertising networks need to do a better job of protecting brands like General Motors, Honda and Lenovo against serving ads on ad-supported Web sites that distribute pirated content, such ...
- Report: Google, Yahoo Serve Ads To Pirated Content Sites
Online Media Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 3, 2013
Two of the world's largest search engines, along with eight other ad networks, fund Web sites with pirated content through advertising, according to a USC report. Fixing the problem cou ...
- Porn Producer Seeks To Widen Piracy Blitz
Around the Net In OMD Europe, Tanya Gazdik - Friday, December 28, 2012
A pornographic film-maker has revealed plans to chase more internet users for compensation for pirating others' adult movies. The move follows a Court of Appeal ruling which overturned a previo ...
- Pirate Party UK Shuts Proxy Service After Threats
Around the Net In OMD Europe, Nina Lentini - Thursday, December 20, 2012
British Phonographic Industry had sent a letter to the Pirate Party UK requesting it closed the service. Pirate Party UK has shut down its Pirate Bay proxy service following threa ...
- BPI Readies Suit Against Pirate Party UK
Around the Net In OMD Europe, Nina Lentini - Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Last month, BPI had sent a letter to the Pirate Party UK chief Loz Kaye requesting to close their Pirate Bay proxy service. A BPI spokesman was quoted by B ...
- Child's Laptop Confiscated In Music Download
Around the Net In OMD Europe, Nina Lentini - Sunday, December 2, 2012
The father of a child accused of illegally downloading music in Finland has paid a EUR300 (GBP243; $390) fine to a Finnish anti-piracy group. He had refused to pay t ...
- BPI Seeks To Block Sites Before Christmas
Around the Net In OMD Europe, Nina Lentini - Tuesday, October 23, 2012
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has asked UK's major internet service providers (ISP) to add three more file-sharing websites to the piracy blockade. BPI claims that three sites including Fenop ...
- ISPs Gear Up To Combat File-Sharing With 'Six Strikes' Plans
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 18, 2012
Internet service providers will roll out their "six strikes" program for piracy over the next two months, the umbrella group Center for Copyright Information said today. The six strikes progra ...
- Brits Show Way To Halt TV Piracy
Around the Net In OMD Europe, Nina Lentini - Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Someone in the BBC has sat down and really thought about the online space. I've already touched on how the British broadcaster is building a foundation on the social networ ...
